The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02

| Gartren appeared in the City Court and
made motion for reduction in bal in Or.
/ Gardner case. and reduction Of the line
( IN the case OF Mary i. Hunt. Judge an
+ Epps granted both motions, reducing Gard
ner's bail 70 $500 and Mary Hunts rne
/ from $500 to 800. II is understood that
( DR.. Gariner's friends viii give bond and
! that Mary Hunts friends VIII pay her fine.
I Both cases have been appealed to the Su-
preme Court.
There is a girl named Leila Burgess serv-
ing life term in the Dade county coal
mines. the story OF whose crime is some
what strange. Her father, James Burgess
lived near Martin. in the western part of
the STATE He had two daughters, the
Youngest Of whom was Leila About three
years ago he Joined the church. and became
a regular church attendant. He was panied
to ~ that his two daughters now grown 10
young womanhoOl, did not care to attend
the religious services with the regularity
that he did, and where all should have been
concord the bitterest kind OF discord grew
up. After a while Burgess told the girls
that revival was about 20 open, and that
he expected them TO attend every service,
and If they did not there would
be somebody 10 whip For three
mornings the girls failed 10 ap. ear
al the sunrise meetings. On the fourth
morning Burgess pulled the girls out OF bel
and began TO chaStiss. one OF them severely.
When he had beaten her into submission he
began on the other. Leila, who yyts the
hrs; one chastise1, slipped out Of the room,
procured an AK. ami with one stroke. buried
the edge of il in her fathers skull. The cash
was FIVE inches long and penetrated the
brain half an inch. Afterwarti the girl at
looking >ullanly ar the dead body of her
father, obHViouS II the crowds which
pressed in u behold the scene Of blood. She
was convicted OF tue highest grade Of man
slaughter, and took her place among the
conylcts ncomp!ainingiy, merely saying
that she would commit the crime over again
before she would he compelled to 60 TO
church 50 early IN the morning.
About 1880 o'clock Monday morning the
Rome and Carrollton train was a pproo ching
Rome At speed OF ten or fifteen miles an
hour. The train was composed OF an EN-
CINE, three freight cars and one passenger
coach About two miles from town there
Is a trestle crossing a dry ravine. When
within $50 feet Of the trestle the passenger
coach left the track. but continued TO run.
The trestIe was reached when the coach was
disconnected from the truck, and rolled
over the tTestie into the ravine
thirty feet below. The coach turn
ed completely over and landed on its side.
J. W. Sims of Cedartown was on board
" len the coach rolled over the rrestle he
grasped a window and was not hurt he
looked around. and for a moment thought
all the passengers were fatally hurt, but
soon found that most Of them were only
slightly injured He at once went % work
and, with the aid of two negro men. rescued
Mrs. Daily. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Liddell
and passsd them out through the windows.
By this time other aid had arrived and soon
all the passengers were removed. Mrs Dai-
~ was taken to the residence Of Mr.. Jones
near BY, where she still is. All others were
taken to Rome late in the afternoon, and
are being properly cared for. Presi-
dent Williamson and the au-
thorities Of the road did all in their
power for the comfort OF the wounded
Dr.. J. 3. 5. Holmes, T. NJ Holmes, E. P
Lovelace. NJ Fank and o. 7. Dozier were
early al the scene of the accident and
rendered valuable assistance. Following
Is a list Of the injured Mrs. J. g. Daily,
spine injured. Is seriously. and perhaps
fatally hurt Mrs. Jones, OF Esom Hill. in
jured about the head and body. but sup
posed not seriously. Mrs. DR. LiideIl OF
Cedartown, injured. but not dangerously.
r II. Brewer, Ce1artown. arm broken.
Mr.. White. Of Floyd county, slightly hurt
Gus Young. CedartOwn, slightly hurt Rev
A J. Waters, Rome, slightly hurt. Con
ductor Moody, ribs broken. severely in
jured- Allen Pate, negro brakeman,
thigh broken Mr. Harrod, slightly hurt.